101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship ☰

Michael Haneke (Writer)

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
— Michael Haneke humour
In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.
— Michael Haneke work
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
— Michael Haneke war
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
— Michael Haneke time
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.
— Michael Haneke people
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
— Michael Haneke art
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.
— Michael Haneke science
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
— Michael Haneke change
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
— Michael Haneke art
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
— Michael Haneke light
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
— Michael Haneke society
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
— Michael Haneke children
It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
— Michael Haneke life
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
— Michael Haneke reality
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
— Michael Haneke music
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
— Michael Haneke love
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
— Michael Haneke art
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
— Michael Haneke art
I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.
— Michael Haneke art
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.
— Michael Haneke joy
My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.
— Michael Haneke mother
Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
— Michael Haneke time
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.
— Michael Haneke people
What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.
— Michael Haneke feeling
I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.
— Michael Haneke man

Share your thoughts on Michael Haneke quotes with the community:

Maybe you are looking for Michael Haneke quotes, Michael Haneke sayings?

Here are quotes most suitable for various topics. In the web you can find use by keywords: quotes Michael Haneke Michael Haneke quotes Michael Haneke sayings Michael Haneke famous quotes Michael Haneke best quotes

101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship